322        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683.

    Liber W. C. Losse to the vallue of fifty pounds of Sterling money and thereupon
                hee bringeth his suite
                 And the said Edward Mann by John Rousby his Attorney corn
                eth & defendeth the force and injury when &ca and prayeth Liberty
                to imparle hereunto until the next Provinciall Court and it is
                granted unto him and the same day is given to the plt likewise
                 Now here at this day to wit the second day of Aprill in the
                Eighth yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
                Baltemore &ca Annoq Doni 1683 came the said William Picke by
                his Attorney aforesaid & offered himself against the said Edward
                Mann in the plea aforesaid but the said Edward Mann came not
                but made default Whereupon the said William Picke Remayneth
                against the said Edward Mann thereof wholly without defence
                It is therefore considered by the Court here that the said William
                Picke Recover against the said Edward Mann aswell the aforesaid
                Sume of fforty pounds and tenn shillings sterling money the debt
                aforesaid as also the sume of One Thousand pounds of Tobacco
                for costs of Suite and the said Defendant in mercy &Ca

                Garrett Vanswearingen Thomas Taylor late of Dorchester County
                    agt gentl was Surnoned to Answere unto Gar
                Thomas Taylorret Vanswearingen of a plea that he render
                unto him Thirteene thousand pounds of
                Tobacco wch to him he oweth and unjustly Deteyneth
                 And Whereupon the said Garrett by Robert Carvile his Attorney
                complaineth that Whereas the said Thomas upon the Second day
                of May in the Yeare of our Lord 1681 at the Citty of St Maries
                by his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory sealed with the seale of
                him the said Thomas and here in Court produced Whose date is the
                day and yeare abovesaid Did acknowledge himself to be holden
         p. 658 and firmely bound unto the Said Garret in the full sume and Just
                Quantity of thirteen thousand pounds of good sound Marchantable
                Tobacco in Caske to be payd to the said Garret Convenient in Dor
                chester or st Maries County at or upon the tenth day of October
                next Ensueing the date of the said writeing obligatory Yett Not
                withstanding the said Thomas the said surne of thirteene thousand
                pounds of Tobacco though often thereunto in Dorchester County
                aforesaid he the said Thomas hath been requested hath not paid or
                satisfyed but the same to pay and Satisfy hath hitherto altogether
                denye.d and refused and still doth denye and refuse to pay the same to
                the Damage of him the said Garret Twenty thousand pounds of
                tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his Suite
                 And the said Thomas Taylor by Griffith Jones his Attorney
                cometh & Defendeth the force and injury when &c and Prayeth
                liberty to imparle hereunto untill next provinciall Court and it is
                granted unto him and the same day is given to the plt likewise